Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1241302
- Date first listed:
- 17-Oct-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Wildage
- Statutory Address:
- WILDAGE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1241302
- Date first listed:
- 17-Oct-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Wildage
- Statutory Address 1:
- WILDAGE
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- WILDAGE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Folkestone and Hythe (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Elham
- National Grid Reference:
- TR 16569 46868
Details
TR 14 NE ELHAM STELLING MILLIS
2/72 Wildage
II
Farmhouse. Mid C16, with C17 and C18 alterations, restored in1950's. Timber framed. Ground floor rendered, first floor tile-hung. Plain tile roof. 4 timber-framed bays; open hall of one timber-framed bay, with short smoke bay to left, and storeyed end bays. Short C18 or later addition to right. 2 storeys, on high knapped flint plinth. Hipped roof. Multiple brick ridge stack towards left end. Irregular fenestration of 3 leaded casements; one two-light towards each end, and one three-light to right of stack. Half-glazed door with bracketed plain tile canopy under stack, and half-glazed door towards right end. Lean-to to each end. Two-storey 1950's rear wing to left, in same materials as main range. Interior: replaced axial joists to left end bay. Unchamfered C16 axial joists to right end bay. Broadly-spaced studding with plaster infilling and arch-braced tie-beam, to right end- of-hall partition on first floor. Evidence for continuation of partition between tie-beam and collar. Mortices for partition below & above left end-of-hall tie beam; wattle-and-daub partition, sooted on left side, remains above collar. Evidence for similar partition below tie-beam only, to left end of smoke bay. Clasped-purlin roof with diminishing principal rafters; left end bay and smoke bay sooted, open hall and right end bay not. Mortices and shutter grooves for diamond mullion windows; one three-light to front of smoke bay (in place of C17 or later doorway), and one four-light to former right gable end on ground floor, one four-light to left gable end and one eight-light to rear of open hall on first floor. Chamfered axial beam and joists to inserted hall floor (joists smaller scantling than right end bay). Brick fireplace with wooden bressumer, probably C17, to right side of stack. Blocked fireplace to left. Two small brick fireplaces with chamfered bressumers to first floor. Shaped and slightly enriched C17 bracket to left end of first floor. Later joists to short right addition. Evidence for later stairs behind stack. Co-eval combination of open hall, smoke bay and clasped-purlin roof relatively unusual in this area.
Listing NGR: TR1656946868
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 440309
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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